Contribution of intercepted subsurface flow to road runoff and sediment transport in a logging-disturbed tropical catchment

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1174-1191

  Negishi, J N ^a,f   Sidle, R C ^b   Ziegler, A D ^c   Noguchi, S ^d   Rahim, N Abdul ^e  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Malaysia)

^f PUBLIC WORKS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cutbank seepage; Hydrogeomorphic controls; Logging impacts; Sediment yield; Tropics

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; LOGGING (FORESTRY); RAIN; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STORMS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

CUTBANK SEEPAGE; HEADWATER CATCHMENTS; HORTONIAN OVERLAND FLOW; HYDROGEOMORPHIC CONTROLS; LOGGING IMPACTS; ROAD CUTS; ROAD RUNOFF; ROAD SECTION; ROAD SURFACES; SEDIMENT FLUXES; SEDIMENT YIELD; SUB-SURFACE FLOW; TROPICS; ZERO-ORDER BASIN;

ROADS AND STREETS;

CATCHMENT; EROSION; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HEADWATER; LOGGING (TIMBER); RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT YIELD; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

HORTONIA;

EID: 48549086484     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1606     Document Type: Article

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